I thought this was quite tragic. Two British soldiers were arrested by Iraqi police. So, straight out of the Wild West, they decide to bust their partners loose. Send in the tanks, blow a hole in the side of a prison... shitloads of people escape. If you can't laugh...

What was even more tragic was that the news report where I heard this focused on the crowd of Iraqis petrol-bombing the tanks (as they were moving in on the prison, as the video showed, but the reporter tried to deny) and on the fractious/rebellious elements within the Iraqi force. No possible suggestion that the troops might have, perhaps, done something a bit fishy (there are allegations that they opened fire on an Iraqi police checkpoint). When an Iraqi official was interviewed after the report (to provide some "depth") the first question was "what do you people think you're doing, aren't you supposed to be our allies?"

Sums it up, somewhat.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/20092005/140/uk-t...sra-crisis.html

I found this article on it. The bit at the bottom, where the defence secretary denied that the prison had been stormed saying "only a wall had been breached by an APC" is just classic.